Apparently my mistake. Engadget is reporting that Cingular and Sprint modified the firmware on the Treo 650, meaning that you can't use it as a dialup modem as is normally possible. The Sprint phone has a hack, but not Cingular, AFAIK. (though this is months old)
Why can't the poster include a one-sentence explanation of Why? He even copied the headline. From the article:
Verizon, Cingular, and other wireless operators want customers to pay to put music on phones [instead of copying them from a computer.] They think getting a full song should be like getting a ring tone.
This isn't a first. Verizon modified the firmware on the Treo 600 and Motorola v710 camera phones to prevent the images from being copied off via Bluetooth. Instead, they wanted you to send the photos through their pay service.
OUR universe appears to be unfathomably uniform. Look across space from one edge of the visible universe to the other, and you'll see that the microwave background radiation filling the cosmos is at the same temperature everywhere. That may not seem surprising until you consider that the two edges are nearly 28 billion light years apart and our universe is only 14 billion years old.
Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, so there is no way heat radiation could have travelled between the two horizons to even out the hot and cold spots created in the big bang and leave the thermal equilibrium we see now.
This "horizon problem" is a big headache for cosmologists, so big that they have come up with some pretty wild solutions. "Inflation", for example.
You can solve the horizon problem by having the universe expand ultra-fast for a time, just after the big bang, blowing up by a factor of 1050 in 10-33 seconds. But is that just wishful thinking? "Inflation would be an explanation if it occurred," says University of Cambridge astronomer Martin Rees. The trouble is that no one knows what could have made that happen.
So, in effect, inflation solves one mystery only to invoke another. A variation in the speed of light could also solve the horizon problem - but this too is impotent in the face of the question "why?" In scientific terms, the uniform temperature of the background radiation remains an anomaly.
"A variation in the speed of light could solve the problem, but this too is impotent in the face of the question 'why?'"
Also, in the same article, Dark Energy is discussed:
9 Dark energy
IT IS one of the most famous, and most embarrassing, problems in physics. In 1998, astronomers discovered that the universe is expanding at ever faster speeds. It's an effect still searching for a cause - until then, everyone thought the universe's expansion was slowing down after the big bang. "Theorists are still floundering around, looking for a sensible explanation," says cosmologist Katherine Freese of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. "We're all hoping that upcoming observations of supernovae, of clusters of galaxies and so on will give us more clues."
One suggestion is that some property of empty space is responsible - cosmologists call it dark energy. But all attempts to pin it down have fallen woefully short. It's also possible that Einstein's theory of general relativity may need to be tweaked when applied to the very largest scales of the universe. "The field is still wide open," Freese says.
How about a class at a college? Maybe one with a large native population: NYU? or Penn State? It's not just flash cards of tapes, but a teacher you can consult. They have Hindi, Urdu, and I heard Penn State even has a Punjabi class.
Macs make up less than 5% of new computer SALES (and I'm sure the new iMacs, eMacs, and Mac minis have raised that. Macs generally last longer than PCs in realworld use, some teachers and secretaries still use their Mac classics. The number of Macs in use is closer to 20%, and that can only be going upward as of the last 5 years. I've never heard of w3schools. 5% of computer sales is still in the millions, as Apple's been posting some giant profits lately.
...terrorists blow it up yet who do they yell at.. "you stupid americans can't you fix it faster!" Trust me these people are not short on reasons to hate.
You think ALL Iraqis are that Irrational? That doesn't make sense no matter how you slice it. All that footage of smiling Iraqis going back to school in a post-Saddam world, yeah they're blaming America the entire time. The Iraqi leaders who vocally speak out against terrorism, you think they only blame America for their woes? The Iraqis who demonstrated against terrorism, you think they did that out of spite for the US? Honestly, what do you think is the base motive for the hatred?All those Iraqis who were upset over the incidents of rape by American soldiers/contractors, you think that's an irrational reason to be angry at the US forces? If you lost a relative in a bombing in a residential area, would you think it reasonable to have a little anger at the ones who carried it out, no matter their reasoning?
According to the US Army's Counterinsurgency Operations field manual:
In order to defeat an insurgent force, US forces must be able to separate insurgents from the population. At the same time, US forces must conduct themselves in a manner that enables them to maintain popular domestic support. Excessive or indiscriminant use of force is likely to alienate the local populace, thereby increasing support for insurgent forces. (From Section 2-66 -- Rules of Engagement.)
Statistics for spring-summer 2004 show that the US was responsible for killing more Iraqi civilians than did the guerrillas.
Judicious application of the minimum destruction concept [is recommended] in view of the overriding requirements to minimize alienating the population. (For example, bringing artillery or air power to bear on a village from which sniper fire was received may neutralize insurgent action but will alienate the civilian population as a result of casualties among noncombatants.) (From Section 3.43 -- Defensive Operations.)
Have you seen the rubble that Fallujah is? Have you asked a Shiite how their holy cities of Najaf and Karbala are after the massive bombing campaign? Iraqi bloggers are practically screaming bloody murder over this, never mind the Iraqi masses who are demonstrating against this.
Infrastructure protection and repair/rehabilitation (for example, electrical power and water, electrical pole repair teams) are critical both for improving the populations' physical well-being as well as for the positive psychological effect it creates. The electrical grid is a good confidence target (very visible), and there is no effect equivalent to the lights going out. "Turning on the lights" in Port-au-Prince contributed to reducing criminal activity (as measured by the murder rate) by about 40 percent in a two-month period (observed in Haiti). (From Section C-37 - Lessons Observed During Past Operations.)
So how successful was the military in adhering to its own standards? A NYTimes article talking about the aftereffects of Fallujah reads:
The full extent of the damage inflicted by American bombs, tanks and artillery is only now becoming apparent. The number of buildings destroyed in the fighting is far higher than 200, the figure released last week by the Iraqi prime minister, Ayad Allawi, engineers and commanders say. The city's power lines are so badly damaged that in most of the city, they will have to be ripped out and rebuilt from scratch - a project that will take six months to a year, American engineers say. Damage to the city's water and sewer pipes, already badly corroded before the invasion, is milder but will also take months to repair.
You said that you don't see how one could fight insurents without resorting to torture. The Shiite Iraqis are handling the terrorist attacks quite well, maybe we should take a lesson from them. When someone suicide bombed their mosque, they didn't go firing indiscriminately into Sunni areas, knowing that would only escalate the conflict. Instead, they're working with the Iraqi national guard to step up security and patrols.
Actually, Apple has Security Updates available for Jaguar, even though Panther is the OS they are selling. They even updated OS 9 versions of iTunes and Quicktime for their iPods for a while, though I don't think they do it anymore.
You totally botched the title of the FUD article, it's in the form of a question Is Apple the New Microsoft? The answer, by the way, is no. Go read the posts within the article.
iTunes AAC tracks are way better than some FM recording. What is the equivalent of a good FM recording, 96kbps mp3? iTunes offers a 128kbps AAC file, which in my ears sounds as good as a 160 or even 92kbps mp3. Heck, it even includes Album cover art, and all the track info encoded properly.
Wow, what a way to overgeneralize 200 Million people. IIRC, only a group of Palestinians were rejoicing, because they thought the US was being punished for giving Israel weapons to shoot Palestinians with. Interestingly, the terrorism of 9/11 was strongly condemned by every single Palestinian organization including Fatah, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Hamas, Workers Unions and Committees, Human Right organizations (AlHaq, Law, Palestine Center for Human Rights), student associations, municipalities, mosques and churches, etc. Palestinians held 2 candlelight vigils to express their grief of such terrorism, and the schools had 5 minutes of silence, and the Jerusalem University held a blood drive to donate their blood to American victims.
The rest of the Arab world not only condemned the attacks, they held prayer vigils and sent condolences. Kuwait sent so many flowers to the US embassy that it ringed the entire compound. Iranian students burst into spontaneous (unplanned) peace demonstrations in support of the US. Egypt's Al-Azhar University, the highest Sunni authority by many, categorically condemned the attack, and reiterated their previous fatwa that suicide bombing was a major sin. The Organization of the Islamic Conference in Qatar that year condemned the attack. Sheikh Qaradawi, a notable figure appearing on Al Jazeera, condemned the attack as well.
Hey, Wikipedia may be nice and all, but you will never, to me, be able to match the content on Everything2.Unlike Wiki, it's got humor, reviews, daylogs, subjectivity, and you get a much, much better sense of the authors. Everything2 has a far greater sense of community, wiki buries itself in Talk: pages. E2 noders have get-togethers and parties. The top noders on e2 write so much better material than some minor edits that go unrecognized.
Yes, but that doesn't justify years and years and years. iPod came out October 2001. Guantanamo prisoners were locked away the same month. (Doesn't look pretty for them either)
How do we know the NSA doesn't have a 3-million-processor cluster hidden somewhere that can easily break any encryption in under an hour? Wouldn't that mean they can push good, non-backdoor encryption techniques to the world, and only they have hardware good enough to brute-force it?
If the 2 Steves had managed to create a monopoly where Apple had total control of the OS AND the hardware, then it would be impossible for anyone else to get a look in
That's quite a bold statement, and even a Mac fanatic like me woulnd't agree with you. Apple was going to crush IBM? Unix? Sun? Atari? Commodore? Amiga?
Apple's treatment of the clone builders was a different story than Microsoft and x86 for that matter. Apples and Oranges. BeOS didn't fall because of anything Apple did, or more importantly, failed to do.
It's like saying if Ford and Chevrolet didn't outcompete Mercedes and BMW, we'd all be forced to drive really expensive cars.
Apple, as a business, wants to be the leader. They're not crushing anyone with their DRM, go burn it to a CD. Their not trying to monopolize downloads the same way Microsoft is trying to marginalize everyone else. Apple isn't sueing "I heart Apple" fansites, but ones that leak prototype designs. I like the sites and read them occasionally, but I know all along they're trying to sneak Apple secrets out to the public.
You just can't compare Apple to Microsoft. Apple hasn't lied in court, crippled competitors' applications on their OS, claimed their code is open yet restricted to non-NDA people, bribed government officials to get their systems into widespread government and military use, given lots of campaign donations in order to pressure their antitrust trial, and developed a PDA OS that only works with one kind of desktop OS. Compare it to Apple, which open-sourced their streaming server, and their Newton was able to sync with Windows or Mac (PocketPC is windows only), and built Quicktime for windows and mac instead of only their own OS. Can you use the Windows media Music store with a mac?
You're correct that Bin Laden focused mainly on the US troops in Saudi Arabia, but he did mention the Israelis as part of the crusader/zionist enemy he spoke of. I think he mentioned the Palestinians, but you're right that the Saudi issue was the main one.
Bin Laden isn't after a theocracy. What do you mean by that? He doesn't want a government run like Iran. He'd be supportive of a legitimate government with Sharia law. He's angry at Saudi Arabia for its dictatorship and selective enforcement of its laws. If anything, his ideal would be either Sudan, where he lived for a while (which has a democratic system and sharia law, but a corrupt government), or possibly the Taliban, but his letters appear to show a lot of frustration with their government.
"Dual Use?" Heck, every county has some "Dual use" WMD stuff. Even my local hospital has "dual use" materials, are they making dirty bombs or X-Raying patients? Hmmmm.
There were no WMDs. All BUsh can stammer out is that they found "dozens of weapons of mass destruction-related program activities." Seriously, would you know a weapons of mass destruction-related program activity" if you saw one? Does "program activity" mean "wishing for?" Ok, if you read the reports, can you provide a link and can you be a little more specific as to what was found? I have Kerosene in the garage, and Sudafed in the upstairs medicine cabinet. Iraq is vast, and te presence of things in the same country doesn't constitute a WMD program, or intent, and falls short of the smoking gun that the administration was so sure of finding.
And why does Bush downplay North Korea? Even if its not diplomatically or militarily prudent to attack them, can't he at least condemn them frequently or something? Seems he's more interested in his plans for strong-arming the Middle East.
Countries "Still in" aren't sending any more. Poland pulled out, Norway followed suit after Abu Ghraib (and the allegations of children being tortured led to a bigger scandal there than in America,it seems), Costa Rica asked to be removed from the list of "Coalition of the Willing." Face it, its only the US and UK who make up the bulk of the forces there.
Australia maybe "committed" but won't say how many or how much. Japan is facing a constitutional crisis in the government because of the questionable legality of having its Self Defense Forces commit to offensive action abroad. Those two issues remain to be seen.
Go see the movie the grandparent post mentions. It shows the scene where protesters were killed by a sniper, and even shows the news interview by one of the coup members, who openly admits that he manipulated the events, called for the protest, and hired snipers to fire into the crowd in order to stir up the public sentiment against Chavez.
Also, the film shows the actual streets and video of the street fighting, and what the anti-Chavez groups actually cropped out of the video in order to hide the truth of what transpired.
Bush has cut corporate and high-income taxes, weakened legislation that protected the environment, patients' and consumers' rights, and tried to push an amendment banning gay marriage (which I don't oppose). He may have spent more than Clinton ever did, but Clinton also managed to pay the bills off, Bush is letting them collect into the trillions, which will badly hurt the US economy in the long-run.
Bush has been right in the war on terror? Is this a troll? He blocked the formation of the 9/11 commission, then stalled for months, refusing to create the national intelligence chief position until after the election. His administration rounded up over 3000 Muslims and denied them access to lawyers. He took the advice of Israeli hardliners and refused to negotiate with the Palestinian authority. (Palestinian oppression was one of Bin Laden's main stated reasons he declared war on America, if you remember. Letting the situation over there fester doesn't help, and waiting for Arafat to die could have taken forever.) He invaded Iraq on the faulty premise of WMDs, making our allies turn away from us. His administration (who he has promoted since), ignored international treaties and conventions, legalized torture and created Camp X-Ray and Camp Delta, which has not-so-secretly tortured detainees. The Abu Ghraib scandal really ruined the "War on Terror" as now no Muslim country supports America. What are Bush's plans to fix the situation? He claims there is no problem, as he was re-elected, and is threatening Syria and Iran. NATO isn't going to contribute any troops to stabilize Iraq, and neither will any country in the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, casualties mount in Iraq but the administration isn't saying what it will do, and recently pushed through a cut of veteran's benefits.
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From an earlier /.-linked article 13 things that do not make sense:
Also, in the same article, Dark Energy is discussed:Explain.....?
How about a class at a college? Maybe one with a large native population: NYU? or Penn State? It's not just flash cards of tapes, but a teacher you can consult. They have Hindi, Urdu, and I heard Penn State even has a Punjabi class.
Macs make up less than 5% of new computer SALES (and I'm sure the new iMacs, eMacs, and Mac minis have raised that. Macs generally last longer than PCs in realworld use, some teachers and secretaries still use their Mac classics. The number of Macs in use is closer to 20%, and that can only be going upward as of the last 5 years. I've never heard of w3schools. 5% of computer sales is still in the millions, as Apple's been posting some giant profits lately.
You think ALL Iraqis are that Irrational? That doesn't make sense no matter how you slice it. All that footage of smiling Iraqis going back to school in a post-Saddam world, yeah they're blaming America the entire time. The Iraqi leaders who vocally speak out against terrorism, you think they only blame America for their woes? The Iraqis who demonstrated against terrorism, you think they did that out of spite for the US? Honestly, what do you think is the base motive for the hatred?All those Iraqis who were upset over the incidents of rape by American soldiers/contractors, you think that's an irrational reason to be angry at the US forces? If you lost a relative in a bombing in a residential area, would you think it reasonable to have a little anger at the ones who carried it out, no matter their reasoning?
You said that you don't see how one could fight insurents without resorting to torture. The Shiite Iraqis are handling the terrorist attacks quite well, maybe we should take a lesson from them. When someone suicide bombed their mosque, they didn't go firing indiscriminately into Sunni areas, knowing that would only escalate the conflict. Instead, they're working with the Iraqi national guard to step up security and patrols.
Not just any english "corner", but a corner of like a room, and not a street corner (that would be esquina).
Orphan? It's powered by a forsaken child?
Actually, Apple has Security Updates available for Jaguar, even though Panther is the OS they are selling. They even updated OS 9 versions of iTunes and Quicktime for their iPods for a while, though I don't think they do it anymore.
iTunes AAC tracks are way better than some FM recording. What is the equivalent of a good FM recording, 96kbps mp3? iTunes offers a 128kbps AAC file, which in my ears sounds as good as a 160 or even 92kbps mp3. Heck, it even includes Album cover art, and all the track info encoded properly.
Wikipedia will tell me who starred in The Fifth Element, but E2 will tell me if it's any good.
The rest of the Arab world not only condemned the attacks, they held prayer vigils and sent condolences. Kuwait sent so many flowers to the US embassy that it ringed the entire compound. Iranian students burst into spontaneous (unplanned) peace demonstrations in support of the US. Egypt's Al-Azhar University, the highest Sunni authority by many, categorically condemned the attack, and reiterated their previous fatwa that suicide bombing was a major sin. The Organization of the Islamic Conference in Qatar that year condemned the attack. Sheikh Qaradawi, a notable figure appearing on Al Jazeera, condemned the attack as well.
You don't believe me? Go see some photos all over the Muslim world of solidarity with America on 9/11 and condemnations of the attack from the Arab and Muslim leaders and scholars.
How do we know the NSA doesn't have a 3-million-processor cluster hidden somewhere that can easily break any encryption in under an hour? Wouldn't that mean they can push good, non-backdoor encryption techniques to the world, and only they have hardware good enough to brute-force it?
That's quite a bold statement, and even a Mac fanatic like me woulnd't agree with you. Apple was going to crush IBM? Unix? Sun? Atari? Commodore? Amiga?
Apple's treatment of the clone builders was a different story than Microsoft and x86 for that matter. Apples and Oranges. BeOS didn't fall because of anything Apple did, or more importantly, failed to do.
It's like saying if Ford and Chevrolet didn't outcompete Mercedes and BMW, we'd all be forced to drive really expensive cars.
Apple, as a business, wants to be the leader. They're not crushing anyone with their DRM, go burn it to a CD. Their not trying to monopolize downloads the same way Microsoft is trying to marginalize everyone else. Apple isn't sueing "I heart Apple" fansites, but ones that leak prototype designs. I like the sites and read them occasionally, but I know all along they're trying to sneak Apple secrets out to the public.
You just can't compare Apple to Microsoft. Apple hasn't lied in court, crippled competitors' applications on their OS, claimed their code is open yet restricted to non-NDA people, bribed government officials to get their systems into widespread government and military use, given lots of campaign donations in order to pressure their antitrust trial, and developed a PDA OS that only works with one kind of desktop OS. Compare it to Apple, which open-sourced their streaming server, and their Newton was able to sync with Windows or Mac (PocketPC is windows only), and built Quicktime for windows and mac instead of only their own OS. Can you use the Windows media Music store with a mac?
You're correct that Bin Laden focused mainly on the US troops in Saudi Arabia, but he did mention the Israelis as part of the crusader/zionist enemy he spoke of. I think he mentioned the Palestinians, but you're right that the Saudi issue was the main one.
Bin Laden isn't after a theocracy. What do you mean by that? He doesn't want a government run like Iran. He'd be supportive of a legitimate government with Sharia law. He's angry at Saudi Arabia for its dictatorship and selective enforcement of its laws. If anything, his ideal would be either Sudan, where he lived for a while (which has a democratic system and sharia law, but a corrupt government), or possibly the Taliban, but his letters appear to show a lot of frustration with their government.
"Dual Use?" Heck, every county has some "Dual use" WMD stuff. Even my local hospital has "dual use" materials, are they making dirty bombs or X-Raying patients? Hmmmm.
There were no WMDs. All BUsh can stammer out is that they found "dozens of weapons of mass destruction-related program activities." Seriously, would you know a weapons of mass destruction-related program activity" if you saw one? Does "program activity" mean "wishing for?" Ok, if you read the reports, can you provide a link and can you be a little more specific as to what was found? I have Kerosene in the garage, and Sudafed in the upstairs medicine cabinet. Iraq is vast, and te presence of things in the same country doesn't constitute a WMD program, or intent, and falls short of the smoking gun that the administration was so sure of finding.
And why does Bush downplay North Korea? Even if its not diplomatically or militarily prudent to attack them, can't he at least condemn them frequently or something? Seems he's more interested in his plans for strong-arming the Middle East.
Countries "Still in" aren't sending any more. Poland pulled out, Norway followed suit after Abu Ghraib (and the allegations of children being tortured led to a bigger scandal there than in America,it seems), Costa Rica asked to be removed from the list of "Coalition of the Willing." Face it, its only the US and UK who make up the bulk of the forces there.
Australia maybe "committed" but won't say how many or how much. Japan is facing a constitutional crisis in the government because of the questionable legality of having its Self Defense Forces commit to offensive action abroad. Those two issues remain to be seen.
Go see the movie the grandparent post mentions. It shows the scene where protesters were killed by a sniper, and even shows the news interview by one of the coup members, who openly admits that he manipulated the events, called for the protest, and hired snipers to fire into the crowd in order to stir up the public sentiment against Chavez.
Also, the film shows the actual streets and video of the street fighting, and what the anti-Chavez groups actually cropped out of the video in order to hide the truth of what transpired.
Well, actually OS X has a BSD-layer, running on top of the Mach microkernel.
Bush has cut corporate and high-income taxes, weakened legislation that protected the environment, patients' and consumers' rights, and tried to push an amendment banning gay marriage (which I don't oppose). He may have spent more than Clinton ever did, but Clinton also managed to pay the bills off, Bush is letting them collect into the trillions, which will badly hurt the US economy in the long-run.
Bush has been right in the war on terror? Is this a troll? He blocked the formation of the 9/11 commission, then stalled for months, refusing to create the national intelligence chief position until after the election. His administration rounded up over 3000 Muslims and denied them access to lawyers. He took the advice of Israeli hardliners and refused to negotiate with the Palestinian authority. (Palestinian oppression was one of Bin Laden's main stated reasons he declared war on America, if you remember. Letting the situation over there fester doesn't help, and waiting for Arafat to die could have taken forever.) He invaded Iraq on the faulty premise of WMDs, making our allies turn away from us. His administration (who he has promoted since), ignored international treaties and conventions, legalized torture and created Camp X-Ray and Camp Delta, which has not-so-secretly tortured detainees. The Abu Ghraib scandal really ruined the "War on Terror" as now no Muslim country supports America. What are Bush's plans to fix the situation? He claims there is no problem, as he was re-elected, and is threatening Syria and Iran. NATO isn't going to contribute any troops to stabilize Iraq, and neither will any country in the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, casualties mount in Iraq but the administration isn't saying what it will do, and recently pushed through a cut of veteran's benefits.